Yesterday’s commemoration was attended by KMT members, as well as nearly 80 Taiwanese expats returning from the US and Southeast Asian countries. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang speaks at an event in Taipei yesterday, part of a series of activities to mark the 75th anniversary of Retrocession Day tomorrow. He thanked them for lending their robust support to the ROC during the war with Japan from 1937 to 1945, which mainly took place on the Chinese mainland. Despite having different political systems, the two sides are nourished by the same Chinese culture and share the same language, Mandarin, he said. Any verbal aggression or military threat by one side would not heal the wound among Chinese who are split apart, but would instead widen the gap, he said, without naming the perpetrator.

Source: Taipei Times October 23, 2020 15:56 UTC